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Yes, well said, "wow" -- thanks for all such things Tom -- continuing on w/ words and views from over there ("across the pond"), TR's photos bringing sense of life to the morning here. And the thoughts on Hardy keep arriving, happily.

Charlotte M was a strange, brilliant and complicated person who had a difficult and variegated life and a truly horrible death. She was said to be "chastely lesbian," carried many a secret torch, but evidently lit no flames. Hardy called her the best woman poet of her day and helped her obtain a Civil List pension. In a deep depression at the end, after her sister's death, she drank Lysol.